17.6 Enabling LDAP Round Robin on a Primary Server to Balance LDAP Queries Between Multiple LDAP Servers

As previously explained, you can define multiple LDAP server connections for a ZENworks Primary Server to access its user source. By default, a Primary Server sends all requests to the first LDAP server in its list. If the request times out, it sends the request to the next LDAP server and so on.

If you want to balance the workload so that the first LDAP server connection doesn’t receive the majority of work, you can enable LDAP round robin on a Primary Server. This will cause LDAP requests from the server to be equally balanced among all of its configured LDAP server connections.

To enable LDAP Round Robin, modify the following file:

In this file, change:

<DoConnectionRoundRobin>false</DoConnectionRoundRobin>

to

<DoConnectionRoundRobin>true</DoConnectionRoundRobin>

and restart the ZENworks Services.